Oracle's 'Trusted Tech' Partnership With TikTok May Very Well Do Nothing to Improve Security

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Sep 14, 2020

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As the September 15 Trump-imposed deadline for the sale of Chinese-owned short video app TikTok loomed, Microsoft came out with a surprise announcement that it was not in the running to buy the ByteDance-owned property. Shortly after that, the Wall Street Journal reported that big-time Trump campaign fundraiser Oracle wouldn’t buy TikTok either but would instead become its “trusted tech partner” in the U.S. under an arrangement that would not be considered an outright sale. The South China Morning Post said that ByteDance wouldn’t sell TikTok’s algorithm stating that “The car can be sold, but not the engine,” leaving in doubt any tangible supply chain security benefits from forcing TikTok to sell itself.

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